Signs and buttons

At Wednesday's PACE meeting, a question was asked about getting/making buttons and yard signs for the No on Issue 2 campaign. Coincidentally, a direct answer to that question was offered up via email that afternoon.

Directly from Mike Mahoney, OEA Director of Communications...

Please avoid creating your own Issue 2 campaign materials.
Authorized materials are soon to be on the way!

Many of our local association leaders and our OEA staff are ready to move forward to support the campaign to Vote No on Issue 2. A few of you have called or emailed to ask OEA for the newest signs, buttons, yard signs and other materials to support the campaign.

Help is on the way soon for all of us looking for these campaign promotional materials. The We Are Ohio campaign is just about ready to do two things:

• We Are Ohio will revamp its bumper stickers, t-shirts, shirt stickers and buttons with a new logo that emphasizes the basic call to action:  Vote No on Issue 2 to Repeal SB 5.

• We Are Ohio will provide coalition member organizations, including OEA, a channel to order some of these campaign materials so that we can in turn distribute them to you.

But in the meantime, please don’t create stickers, signs and logos at the local level. Message discipline is crucial to this campaign, down to the stickers.

We will also provide you with an approval process – in line with what the coalition decides – for your local and district campaign materials. Until then, please email me with any questions or problems you might have in this regard.

Thanks, and please remember our message:  Vote No on Issue 2 – It’s Unfair, It’s Unsafe and It Hurts Us All.

Mike

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Mike Mahoney
Director of Communications & Marketing
Ohio Education Association
www.ohea.org
614-227-3015 office
614-284-7288 cell

Signs, buttons, bumper stickers, and shirts with the new No on Issue 2 branding do appear to be available on the We Are Ohio store page.

No on 2 commercial

The first commercial from We Are Ohio's No on Issue 2 campaign began broadcasting this week.

Check out the commercial titled simply "Firefighters."

Coming back...not giving in

Just got training today from OEA folks on what this fall's "No on Issue 2" campaign will be like. Info will start rolling back onto the blog and into your mailboxes in the next couple of weeks.

For now, hold yourself over with this video...

An intriguing but not unexpected development

Look like we just might have some competition...

Pro SB5 group will become official on Tuesday


The group that will lead the effort to save Senate Bill 5 from a November referendum effort is expected to officially file with the secretary of state’s office on Tuesday.


The group is expected to file as a nonprofit 501c4, with an affiliated political action committee. Such a setup could allow the group to hide the sources of its contributions, but those familiar with the effort say the plan is to voluntarily disclose all contributors to the secretary of state.


The group will battle head-to-head with We Are Ohio, the coalition of union supporters that is currently collecting the 231,000 signatures needed to place the collective-bargaining-slashing law on the ballot in an attempt to overturn it. One month into signature gathering, We Are Ohio was well on its way to getting enough names.


Vaughn Flasher, a veteran lobbyist and Republican political consultant who since 2006 has run the Senate GOP’s campaign committee, will lead the pro-Senate Bill 5 team.

A good first step

Nice headline today: Wisconson judge strikes down collective bargaining restrictions.

Not quite perfect because it was only struck down on a technicality, but it's a good start.

Now we just need the ones in Tennessee, Indiana, New York, and especially Ohio struck down / overturned / repealed, too.

By the way, thanks to Rachelle Williams, Linda Pope, and Pat Walden for turning in their petitions.

A favor to ask

We're supposed to be collecting signatures before tonight's middle school band concert at PHS (from 6:15-7:15 at the corner of Sharon and Chester Roads). If you have any sort of magical weather-controlling powers, do what you can to get us some good weather, would ya?

Another petition signing opportunity

From Michelle Turner...

I will be collecting signatures outside of the Sharonville Public library Thursday, May 26^th, from 4:15-4:45 (for Hamilton and Butler County residents only). A Sharonville parent is sending it to their distribution list.

Outstanding, Michelle. Thanks for the notice.

Spread the word, folks.

Circulators, any of you have any other signing opportunities coming up?